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Sir John Clanvowe was the ideal Ricardian courtier. A member of
the landed gentry, Clanvowe spent his early years as a knight
fighting on several campaigns in the Hundred Years War with France.
He later served as a knight in the households of the Earl of
Hereford, Edward III, and Richard II, for whom he was a Knight of
the Chamber, a trusted councilor and an ambassador to France.
Clanvowe was an accomplished poet, author of the Chaucerian “The
Boke of Cupide” and part of a court literary coterie that included
Geoffrey Chaucer and others who were on familiar terms with French
poets, such as Oton de Granson, Jean Froissart, and Eustache
Deschamps. But Clanvowe was also the author of a pious religious
treatise called “The Two Ways�…

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Havens, Jill. "Sir John Clanvowe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 February 2005
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=891, accessed 18 February 2018.]

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